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Mona Hammond

Actress

Born - 1 January 1931, Clarendon, Jamaica
Died - 4 July 2022

Born Mavis Chin to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother, the petite actress came to Britain in 1959, winning an acting scholarship at RADA. After years on stage and TV, she made her film debut (as Mona Chin) in Herostratus (1967). Busy on TV from then on, latterly for more than 20 years as the gran of the character Alan Jackson in EastEnders, she made a few additional films: Fords on Water (1983), Pure (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Manderlay (2005), Kinky Boots (2005), 10,000 BC (2007), Burlesque Fairytales (2009), Coriolanus (2011) and the short Bucky (2016), her last.